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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

The Top Vitamin Deficiency with Acne

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today I’m going to share the best remedies for acne. When a person has acne, multiple things are happening at once.


The oil glands are called sebaceous glands—they make oil or sebum. Usually, the sebaceous glands are inflamed, enlarged, and producing too much oil.


Typically, bacteria are also involved, affecting the immune system and creating more inflammation.


One of the biggest causes of acne is a shift in hormones. But, a high-carb diet and frequent eating can also cause acne. It’s essential to get on a low-carb diet and do intermittent fasting to help get rid of acne fast.


Another one of the top acne causes is a deficiency in vitamin D. Vitamin D can regulate bacteria involved in acne—it’s a potent antibacterial. If you're deficient in vitamin D, you won’t be able to control acne-causing microbes.


Vitamin D also supports the sebaceous glands to help reduce swelling of the glands and oil production.


The best natural remedies for acne:

1. Take vitamin D3 (20,000 IU)

2. Get on the Healthy Keto® diet

3. Do intermittent fasting

4. Stop scrubbing your skin

5. Consume cod liver oil

6. Consume fatty fish


Transcript

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0:00.0

Boy, acne can really affect someone's self-esteem.

0:04.1

I had acne really bad going through junior high school

0:07.6

and high school and it really affected my self-esteem.

0:11.4

So I would like to share with you something

0:14.3

that I wish I knew back when I had acne

0:16.6

because it's so simple to get rid of this

0:18.8

if you understand the mechanism.

0:20.4

And out of all the things that can create acne,

0:23.4

there's one really big vitamin deficiency

0:26.0

that you need to know about.

0:27.2

But I first want to give you the kind of the mechanism

0:29.9

first, what is acne?

0:32.0

Well, it's a situation where you have multiple things

0:34.8

going on at once.

0:37.2

You have this gland, this oil gland.

0:40.5

It's called a sebaceous gland, okay?

0:43.5

And it makes oil and that oil is called sebum.

0:46.5

And there's usually a combination of an inflamed sebaceous gland.

0:52.0

The gland is now enlarged and it's also producing too much oil.

0:56.8

So you usually have some oily skin.

0:59.0

And there's usually also a bacteria involved,

1:02.6

which is affecting immune system

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